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Prison Simulator Prologue

Baked Games · 2021-05-20

Steam

ActionRPGSimulation

Wanna find out what a prison riot looks like? Check a free stand-alone prologue for Prison Simulator. A story that is not available in the full game! Be warned: Police baton might not be enough to bring order to the prison halls.

Prison Simulator Prologue is an Action, RPG, Simulation game released in 2021, free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 2895 reviews).

4
playing now
89%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (961 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
87787720212026Week of 2021-05-01: 877 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3813May 2021Jul 2026May 2021 — avg 381 · peak 922Jul 2021 — avg 128 · peak 431Sep 2021 — avg 58 · peak 139Nov 2021 — avg 47 · peak 123Jan 2022 — avg 41 · peak 111Mar 2022 — avg 38 · peak 108May 2022 — avg 31 · peak 73Jul 2022 — avg 35 · peak 83Sep 2022 — avg 28 · peak 68Nov 2022 — avg 28 · peak 69Jan 2023 — avg 40 · peak 112Mar 2023 — avg 14 · peak 42May 2023 — avg 11 · peak 26Jul 2023 — avg 14 · peak 33Sep 2023 — avg 8 · peak 25Nov 2023 — avg 8 · peak 24Jan 2024 — avg 9 · peak 25Mar 2024 — avg 10 · peak 30May 2024 — avg 9 · peak 28Jul 2024 — avg 10 · peak 26Sep 2024 — avg 7 · peak 24Nov 2024 — avg 6 · peak 18Jan 2025 — avg 7 · peak 19Mar 2025 — avg 7 · peak 22May 2025 — avg 6 · peak 15Jul 2025 — avg 6 · peak 19Sep 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Feb 2026 — avg 5 · peak 13Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 12Jun 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

15
achievements tracked
54.8%
earned "Let's take it"
21%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, French, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,2087%15

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSCrimeFunnyActionSandboxStealthAdventureRealisticOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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